Mika Braginsky

Pronouns: they/them

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I’m a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, advised by Ted Gibson.

Before that I was a research assistant in the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, working with Mike Frank.

Research

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning: The Wordbank Project

Book of large-scale cross-linguistic analyses using data from the Wordbank project

Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages

Paper on predicting words' acquisition trajectories from their properties

Tools

Wordbank + wordbankr

Database of vocabulary development data and R package for accessing it

childes-db + childesr

Database of child language transcripts and R package for accessing it

peekbank + peebankr

Database of developmental eyetracking datasets and R package for accessing it

Wordful

Smartphone app for tracking early vocabulary growth

rwebppl

R interface to the WebPPL probabilistic programming language

tidyboot

R package for doing tidyverse-compatible bootstrapping

ggpirate

R package for making plots of data with categorical independent variables

jglmm

R package for fitting generalized linear mixed effects models in Julia

Teaching

Laboratory in Psycholinguistics

Course in spring 2018 & spring 2019

with Ted Gibson

Large-scale data tools in language acquisition

Workshop at LSA Summer Institute 2019

Miscellaneous

Interactive visualizations

Cambridge election results 2019
Trends in name genders
Multilingual translation